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Post by Terry on Feb 11, 2010 18:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by staze on Feb 12, 2010 15:55:43 GMT -5
I will, of course, being watching highlights daily but my main interest lies with hockey, curling and singles figure skating.
GO CANADA GO!!!
I predict 8 golds and 31 medals in total.
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Post by Terry on Feb 12, 2010 16:18:59 GMT -5
I think the luge track will be the main story this Olympics. Someone got killed during a training run when their sled flew off the track at the bottom and slammed into one of the steel girders. I saw a video of what happened but it got pulled not long after. But it was like having someone racing a motorcycle down the street, losing control and slamming into a light pole. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=txluglugerdies&prov=st&type=lgns
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Post by Terry on Feb 12, 2010 16:21:54 GMT -5
this is off topic but why was Arnold Schwarzenegger carrying the torch? Good job Vancouver, good job. Because this is an environmentalist games and he's a leading environmentalist. Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of people that could've run that instead of him but I guess they're more involved in community and sports and weren't "green" enough.
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Post by Smyth94 on Feb 12, 2010 22:39:52 GMT -5
i'm mainly gonna watch the hockey and possibly the snow boarding rest of it i'm never up during the day to see
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Post by Terry on Feb 12, 2010 23:52:55 GMT -5
I was tired and missed the opening. But I did get to see K.D. Lang. Didn't know she still existed.
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Post by Terry on Feb 12, 2010 23:55:31 GMT -5
BTW, the video of that Georgian luger crashing is out there. CTV's Olympic site has his run in its entirety, unedited, so be warned if you're squeamish.
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 0:04:59 GMT -5
Nice touch to have several people light the flame instead of one person. Although, I guess the cauldron didn't quite work as they wanted. I guess they won't have the indoor flame going all the time as I don't know what the heat would do to the roof.
I guess now that it's not quite over.
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 0:16:16 GMT -5
Well, I guess it was Gretz lighting the flame.
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Post by jayman74 on Feb 13, 2010 9:55:13 GMT -5
I haven't seen the video of the luger, and probably don't want to, but that's weird of them to release it if he died.
They were also saying that's a bad corner at a very high rate of speed, so I wonder if any other riders will have problems around that spot if they go ahead with the luge. I haven't heard whether or not they're continuing, but I did hear they were thinking of cancelling the luge, which wouldn't be fair to the other athletes who trained hard to be there.
You'd think they'd have some kind of safety padding in areas like that.
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 13:50:45 GMT -5
I don't think padding would've helped. He was traveling at about 90 MPH when he hit the beam. They would've had to block off that entire length with a wall. But then he would've still be traveling up the track out of control.
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 13:53:16 GMT -5
Nice that most, if not all, events are being streamed online in Canada on the CTV site in the first post. But there was quite a bit of a delay when I compred the ski jumping on TSN to that being streamed. About 100 seconds. I don't know if that was deliberate so that it's not quite live.
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 22:04:01 GMT -5
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 22:10:05 GMT -5
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Post by Terry on Feb 13, 2010 22:58:19 GMT -5
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